In much the same way that ballet has inspired film, pop musicians too have a healthy appreciation for dance. With the return of Chroma featuring orchestrations of music by The White Stripes, we thought we'd take a look at a few examples:

A viral hit, Radiohead's 2011 music video for Lotus Flower is strikingly sparse - bowler-hatted frontman Thom Yorke flails in monochrome to the stuttering and soaring stand-out track, taken from the album The King of Limbs. Royal Ballet Resident Choreographer Wayne McGregor choreographed the sequence at Yorke's request and the video sparked an internet meme 'Dancing Thom Yorke' where fans replaced the audio with other songs, most memorably Beyoncé's Single Ladies. Yorke and McGregor collaborated again on the video for Radiohead side-project Atoms for Peace's Ingenue. 'It's like any contemporary artists working alongside each other,' offered Sadler's Wells Artistic Director Alistair Spalding. 'They will tend to work with their friends. It's like when Diaghilev would commission Stravinsky. Maybe today he would think about Radiohead.'

Boy George, Alison Mosshart, and more with Wayne McGregor - Carbon Life

Another pop/dance fusion from Wayne McGregor, Carbon Life saw the choreographer team up with DJ/producer Mark Ronson enlist to assemble a supergroup of pop talent from 80s new wave (Boy George) to indie rock (Andrew Wyatt of Miike Snow, Alison Mosshart of The Kills and The Dead Weather) and hip hop (Wale). The Gareth Pugh-designed production saw a backing band perform nine songs live from the rear of the stage while a revolving ensemble of Royal Ballet dancers performed in front. Among other inventive elements, the ballet saw male dancers performing on pointe, dressed in Pugh's striking angular costumes.

Sufjan Stevens with Justin Peck and New York City Ballet - Year of the Rabbit

Performed to an orchestration of Sufjan Stevens's astrology-inspired electronic song cycle Enjoy Your Rabbit, Year of the Rabbit was choreographed by New York City Ballet corps dancer Justin Peck. It followed an earlier collaboration between Peck and Stevens, which was created for the New York Choreographic Institute and follows the George Balanchine's tradition of, in Stevens's words, 'refusing to impose meaning [and] manipulating the dancers as abstract objects'. The pair are collaborating on a third work which will have its premiere in May 2014.